Category:

Dateline:

Public Company Information:

NYSE:

IHS

"In 2013, 207 attacks were claimed by or attributed to Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). This is a 160% increase from the 79 recorded in open sources in 2012"

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The number of attacks by non-state armed groups around the world has
rapidly increased in just five years, according to the IHS Jane’s
2013 Global Terrorism & Insurgency Attack Index from IHS Inc.
(NYSE: IHS), a leading global source of critical information and
insight. “In 2009, a worldwide total of 7,217 attacks were recorded from
open sources. In 2013, that number increased by more than 150% to
18,524,” said Matthew Henman, manager of IHS Jane’s Terrorism and
Insurgency Centre(JTIC), which carried out the study.

Iraq: Suicide attacks quadruple and Al-Qaeda in Iraq re-enters the top
five most active non-state armed groups in the world

Sub-Saharan Africa: Terrorism fatalities rise

Global Trends

“The epicenter of 2013 activity was in the Middle East, with significant
pockets of violence radiating out to neighboring regions in Africa and
South Asia. We have also seen a dramatic rise in the number of militant
and non-militant casualties. In 2012, 13,872 militants and 10,562
non-militants deaths were recorded from open sources. In 2013,
non-militants fatalities almost doubled to 17,554 and militant
fatalities numbered 21,490. These are some of the largest rises we have
recorded in the past several years,” Henman said.

Arab Spring countries see attack spike

“In 2013, JTIC recorded a spike in activity by non-state armed groups in
Tunisia and Egypt. Attacks in Tunisia grew from 21 in 2012 to 72 in
2013. In Egypt, the number of attacks recorded jumped from 63 in 2012 to
431 in 2013. In Libya, there were 237 attacks recorded in 2013 and 81 in
2012. While the increases in Egypt and Tunisia were both somewhat
attributable to the emergence of Islamist militant groups, violent
protests following the deposing of President Muhammad Morsi in Egypt
accounted for the majority of sub-state violence recorded by JTIC,”
Henman said.

Syria’s attack count almost doubles between 2012 and 2013

Henman added that “due to a plurality of factors, the anti-government
insurgency in Syria intensified notably in 2013. Between 2012 and 2013,
the number of attacks recorded by JTIC almost doubled. In 2012, we
recorded 2,670 attacks. In 2013, that number jumped to 4,694.”

Suicide attacks quadruple in Iraq; Al-Qaeda in Iraq re-enters the Top
5

“A key indication of the intensifying level of violence in Iraq was that
the number of suicide attacks in the country quadrupled from 2012 to
2013, with the 2013 total almost triple that recorded in neighboring
Syria and almost double that recorded in Afghanistan,” Henman continued.

“In 2013, 207 attacks were claimed by or attributed to Al-Qaeda in Iraq
(AQI). This is a 160% increase from the 79 recorded in open sources in
2012,” he said. “Despite this increase, it does not fully reflect AQI’s
predominant role in driving the 52% increase in the recorded number of
attacks in Iraq and the 148% increase in non-militant fatalities. In
2012 there were 2,297 attacks in Iraq. At the end of 2013, that figure
stands at 3,499.”

Sub-Saharan Africa’s rising terrorism risks

Henman concluded that “while the number of recorded attacks has only
slightly increased in sub-Saharan Africa, we are seeing more lethal
attacks claiming a higher number of fatalities. In 2012, JTIC recorded
1,370 attacks in sub-Saharan Africa with 3,434 fatalities. In 2013, JTIC
recorded 1,391 attacks with 3,903 fatalities. When we look at Nigeria
specifically, attacks decreased from 305 in 2012 to 137 in 2013, but
fatalities rose from 1,351 in 2012 to 1,447 in 2013. This was partly due
to an intensification of violence by militant Islamist group Boko Haram,
but also a consequence of several high-profile instances of
inter-communal violence across the country.”

The IHS Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Centre uses open source data to
build its global database of terrorist and insurgent events, archived to
1997. The IHS Jane’s Global Terrorism & Insurgency Attack Index
is an annual report for clients highlighting key data and global trends
from this database, which is updated on a daily basis. The database
enables users to search by location, target, group (active and dormant),
tactics and casualty numbers in order to quickly obtain actionable
intelligence and/or data.

JTIC defines an attack as any incident in which a sub-state actor
(either an individual or organisation) commits an illegal act of
politically or ideologically motivated violence against persons or
property, with the aim of coercing others to adopt or comply with its
objectives or to submit to their authority, that results in death,
damage, or disruption.

IHS (NYSE: IHS) is the leading source of information, insight and
analytics in critical areas that shape today’s business landscape.
Businesses and governments in more than 165 countries around the globe
rely on the comprehensive content, expert independent analysis and
flexible delivery methods of IHS to make high-impact decisions and
develop strategies with speed and confidence. IHS has been in business
since 1959 and became a publicly traded company on the New York Stock
Exchange in 2005. Headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, USA, IHS is
committed to sustainable, profitable growth and employs more than 8,000
people in 31 countries around the world.